ICANN: broaden your leadership ranks!

The the NGO & Academic ICANN Study Project (NAIS) released a report today. NAIS, an alliance of non-governmental and academic groups, urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to include greater public participation in its decision-making progress. In ICANN's most recent election, its members voted to its board of directors only five "at-large" members to serve as voices of the Internet public. Read on for the whole article... and wonder at the sheer egotism of a handful of people who consider themselves qualified to make decisions about the internet without adequate civil society representation and consultation.